Davis and White win ice dance competition, earn honor

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Meryl Davis and Charlie White won the ice dance competition at the International Skating Union (ISU) Grand Prix in Quebec City, besting Canada's Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir, their training partners and great rivals. Davis and White, the current world champions, skated an almost flawless short dance and took a .05-point lead in the free dance to beat Virtue and Moir, the 2010 Olympic gold medalists, 188.55 points to 183.34 points.

France's Nathalie Pechalat and Fabian Bourzat were third with 169.69 points.

Other athletes receiving consideration this week

Sarah Hammer took the gold medal in the women's Omnium at a World Cup event in Cali, Colombia. She beat Canada's Tara Whitten and Britain's Laura Trott. This was Hammer's second medal in Colombia. She won a bronze in women's team pursuit with Lauren Tamayo, Dotsie Bausch and Jennie Reed. The Omnium race makes its Olympic debut at the 2012 London Games.

At the ISAF Combined World Championships in Perth, Australia, Paige Railey won the Laser Radial bronze medal by one point.

"It's a huge relief. I'm extremely happy to see all the hard work pay off," said the 24-year-old from Clearwater, Fla.

The final Olympic test events of 2011 (to test logistics and planning at all the Olympic venues) were held this week in London and several wrestlers are returning with medals. Brent Metcalf, who wrestles at 66kg/145.5 pounds, won a gold medal besting Japan's Kotaro Tanaka. Angel Escobedo (55kg/121 pounds) and Andrew Howe (74kg/163 pounds) each won silver medals and Reece Humphrey (60kg/132 pounds) has a bronze.

Steven Holcomb and Steve Langton slid to a second-place finish at the two-man bobsled at World Cup competition in La Plagne, France. Holcomb and Langton finished third at a World Cup race last week.